For The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed songwriter Jimmy Webb and the 5th Dimension's Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. on the writing and recording of Up, Up and Away for my "Anatomy of a Song" column (go here). How Jimmy came to write the song and the reason he wrote it are mind-blowing. And that intro Jimmy wrote, with horns arranged by …
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